EP1268237A1 - Methode zur verbesserung der auslösesicherheit bei rückhaltesystemen für kraftfahrzeuge - Google Patents
Methode zur verbesserung der auslösesicherheit bei rückhaltesystemen für kraftfahrzeugeInfo
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- EP1268237A1 EP1268237A1 EP01920847A EP01920847A EP1268237A1 EP 1268237 A1 EP1268237 A1 EP 1268237A1 EP 01920847 A EP01920847 A EP 01920847A EP 01920847 A EP01920847 A EP 01920847A EP 1268237 A1 EP1268237 A1 EP 1268237A1
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- Prior art keywords
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- occupant protection
- vehicle
- safing
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R21/01—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R21/01—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents
- B60R21/013—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents including means for detecting collisions, impending collisions or roll-over
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R21/01—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents
- B60R21/013—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents including means for detecting collisions, impending collisions or roll-over
- B60R21/0132—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents including means for detecting collisions, impending collisions or roll-over responsive to vehicle motion parameters, e.g. to vehicle longitudinal or transversal deceleration or speed value
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R21/01—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents
- B60R21/017—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents including arrangements for providing electric power to safety arrangements or their actuating means, e.g. to pyrotechnic fuses or electro-mechanic valves
- B60R21/0173—Diagnostic or recording means therefor
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R2021/0002—Type of accident
- B60R2021/0018—Roll-over
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R21/01—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents
- B60R2021/01006—Mounting of electrical components in vehicles
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R21/01—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents
- B60R2021/01013—Means for detecting collision, impending collision or roll-over
- B60R2021/01027—Safing sensors
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R21/00—Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks
- B60R21/01—Electrical circuits for triggering passive safety arrangements, e.g. airbags, safety belt tighteners, in case of vehicle accidents or impending vehicle accidents
- B60R2021/0104—Communication circuits for data transmission
- B60R2021/01047—Architecture
- B60R2021/01054—Bus
- B60R2021/01068—Bus between different sensors and airbag control unit
Definitions
- the present invention relates to an occupant protection safety system, and more particularly to a safing system which prevents inadvertent deployment.
- occupant protection safety systems installed in the vehicle must be activated in timely fashion; these include, for example, roll-over bars, belt tensioners, front and side airbags, etc.
- S atellite sensors are typically provided to sense vehicle frontal, side, or roll-over crash events.
- the satellite sensors communicate with a safety controller which physically controls and diagnoses faults in the occupant protection safety systems.
- the vehicle occupant protection activation system includes one or more satellite sensors which communicate with a safety controller.
- the satellite sensor(s) and safety controller assure that the occupant protection systems are activated only in the event of vehicle crash event or roll-over.
- the satellite sensors communicate with the safety controller to identify whether a heightened likelihood of a vehicle crash event or roll-over exists. If a heightened likelihood of such an event exists corresponding satellite sensor sends a safing message to the safety controller. When the safing message is received by the safety controller it responds to the satellite sensor with a safing response including a seed message therein. The seed message is temporarily stored in the satellite sensor and is also stored by the safety controller. The safety controller is now "armed" for the corresponding safety system.
- the satellite sensor confirms whether the safety system deployable vehicle event is, in fact, actually occurring. If it is determined that the event requires deployment, the satellite sensor sends a deploy message to the safety controller that includes the seed message therein to authenticate the command. The safety controller is thus assured that the deploy command is authorized and inadvertent deployment is prevented, which could have been caused by a failure in the satellite sensor microcontroller. A microcontroller failure in the satellite sensor would prevent it from receiving the seed message from the safety controller.
- Figure 1 is a general top view of a vehicle including an occupant protection activation system according to the present invention
- Figure 2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating the occupant protection activation system
- Figure 3 is a flow chart representing the operation of the occupant protection activation system.
- FIG 1 illustrates an occupant protection activation system 10 for a vehicle 12.
- the activation system 10 selectively actuates at least one vehicular safety system such as a seat belt pretension system 14, a side airbag 16, curtain airbag 18 (each illustrated substantially schematically), or the like.
- the occupant protection activation system 10 includes a safety controller 22 which communicates with a satellite sensor 24 over a communication bus 20 or the like. It should be understood that a plurality of satellite sensors 24' may also be connected to the safety controller 22.
- the safety controller 22 generally includes a CPU 25 and storage device 26 connected to the CPU 25.
- the storage device 26 may include a hard drive, CD ROM, DND, RAM, ROM or other optically readable storage, magnetic storage or integrated circuit.
- the safety controller 22 operates to activate each occupant protection system 14, 16, 18.
- the satellite sensor 24 generally includes a CPU 27 and a storage device 28 connected to the CPU 27.
- the satellite sensor 24 preferably includes one or more sensors 29 to sense a plurality of parameters including acceleration and/or roll angles of the vehicle and to detect a crash or, roll-over event. It should be understood that satellites sensors are typically located in likely impact or "crush" areas of the vehicle 12 ( Figure 1) to more rapidly identify the likelihood of a front or side crash, hi the case of a rollover satellite, it can be located away from the safety controller in order to better sense vehicle rollover conditions.
- the safety controller 22 includes control logic circuitry 30 to receive and interprets signals from the satellite sensor 24 to determine whether to deploy the vehicular safety systems 14, 16, 18 as described more fully hereinafter. Upon receiving a message indicating a crash or roll-over situation is occurring the safety controller 22 generate a corresponding actuator signal to actuate the corresponding vehicular safety system 14, 16, and/or 18.
- a flow chart schematically represents the control logic 30 embodied in the safety controller 22 according to the instant invention, hi operation, the satellite sensor 24 communicates with the safety controller 22 to identify whether a heightened likelihood of a vehicle crash or roll-over condition exists as illustrated by step 100.
- the satellite sensor 24 preferably interprets the sensed parameters determine whether the sensed conditions exceed a predetermined condition which indicates that a crash or roll-over is likely to occur. It should be understood that the predetermined condition which indicates a heightened likelihood of vehicle crash or roll-over is particularly tailored for the vehicle type and determination of such an envelope is well within one reasonably skilled in the art.
- the satellite sensor 24 sends a safing message to the safety controller 22 at step 102.
- the safing message prepares the safety controller 22 for activation, hi other words, the safing message "arms" the safety controller 22 for substantially immediate activation. By so “arming” the safety controller 22 the response time of each safety system 14-20 is essentially shortened as some of the multiple messages required to activate are transmitted prior to the deployment decision.
- the safing message is received by the safety controller 22 it responds to the satellite sensor 24 with a safing response including a seed message therein at step 104.
- the random seed message is temporarily stored in the safety controller 22 and is also stored by the satellite sensor 24 storage device 28 ( Figure 2). It should be understood that the seed message can be any particular alphanumeric or other identifiable seed. Moreover, the seed can be randomly generated or predetermined, as long as the satellite sensor has no prior knowledge of the seed message.
- the safety controller 22 for each safety system 14-20 is now “armed” as the seed message is known by the satellite sensor 24 and the safety controller 22.
- the satellite sensor 22 further identifies whether a crash or vehicle roll-over condition is actually occurring at step 106.
- the satellite sensor 24 interprets the plurality of parameters sensed to determine whether the sensed conditions exceed a second predetermined condition which indicates that a vehicle crash or roll-over is occurring. Again, the predetermined condition which indicates that a vehicle crash or roll-over is occurring and determination of such an envelope is well within one reasonably skilled in the art.
- the satellite sensor sends a deploy command to the safety controller 22 at step 108.
- the deploy command includes the seed message therein to authenticate the command.
- the safety controller 22 confirms the seed message at step 110, and is thus assured that the deploy command is authorized and inadvertent deployment is prevented.
- the deployment decision maybe determined individually for each safety system 14- 20 such that only the proper safety systems for the sensed event are activated.
- the second predetermined condition is preferably tailored for each particular safety system, for example only, a deploy command for the deployment of a roll-bar may have a lesser deployment threshold than an airbag. If it is determined that the event does not require deployment, the safety controller 22 clears the seed message from its memory register at step 110.
- the seed message is preferably cleared after a predetermined time period, however, the seed message may additionally or alternatively be cleared when the satellite sensor indicates that a third predetermined condition exists.
- the safety controller and each safety system 14-20 is thus returned to a lower ready state such that inadvertent deployment is prevented.
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- Automotive Seat Belt Assembly (AREA)
Applications Claiming Priority (3)
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US (1) | US6516259B2 (de) |
EP (1) | EP1268237A1 (de) |
JP (1) | JP2003529491A (de) |
KR (1) | KR20030031473A (de) |
WO (1) | WO2001074625A1 (de) |
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